Ocean mixing processes and innovation in oceanographic models

海洋混合过程和海洋模型创新

• 批准号: FL150100090
• 负责人: Prof Trevor McDougall
• 金额: $ 187.92万
• 依托单位: The University of New South Wales
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Australian Laureate Fellowships
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2016-05-02 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/FL150100090
• 关键词: Ocean; mixing; processes; innovation; oceanographic

Ocean mixing processes and innovation in oceanographic models: This fellowship project aims to develop new oceanographic tools and thermodynamic variables to support a new generation of accurate ocean models more suitable for the prediction of changes in a warming world. The ocean’s role in the climate system is predominantly to store and to transport heat and carbon dioxide, and the ocean’s ability to do this is sensitive to the strength of mixing processes, which are quite uncertain. This project hopes to distinguish the vital role of vertical mixing from that of horizontal mixing by (i) developing algorithms to construct neutral density surfaces in climate models, (ii) formulating new inverse techniques to deduce the amount of vertical mixing in various ocean regions, and (iii) incorporating new approaches to ocean mixing processes and thermodynamics into ocean models.

海洋混合过程和海洋学模型的创新：该研究金项目旨在开发新的海洋学工具和热力学变量，以支持更适合于预测变暖世界变化的新一代精确海洋模型。海洋在气候系统中的作用主要是储存和输送热量和二氧化碳，海洋这样做的能力对混合过程的强度很敏感，而混合过程的强度很不确定。该项目希望通过以下方式区分垂直混合和水平混合的重要作用：（i）开发在气候模式中构建中性密度面的算法，（ii）制定新的逆技术以推断不同海洋区域的垂直混合量，以及（iii）将海洋混合过程和热力学的新方法纳入海洋模式。